Her place of birth, Duanvale, is a neighbouring district to Sherwood Content, which is the hometown of legendary sprinter Usain Bolt.

Her eldest child Harold Fairweather is 96 and holds the title of ‘world’s oldest living person with a parent also alive’, according to the Jamaican Observer.

According to her official biography Brown ‘is a post-slavery survivor’. In her early years, she worked on a plantation and as a maid before buying her own property to plant and sell sugar cane with her husband.